'Fight Less, Win More is a massively useful book for just about anyone who has to deal with the desires, foibles, and idiosyncrasies of other human beings.' — Daniel Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of To Sell Is Human, Drive, and The Power of RegretYour handbook for mastering the negotiating skills in the multimillion-copy bestseller Never Split the Difference.You're in a nego...

The Wealth of Nations is a treasured classic of political economy. First published in March of 1776, Adam Smith wrote the book to influence a special audience – the British Parliament – and its arguments in the early spring of that year pressed for peace and cooperation with Britain's colonies rather than war.Smith's message was that economic exploitation, through the monopoly trade of empire, stifled wealth-creation in both home and foreign lands. Moreover, protectionism ...

Few American Civil War operations matched the controversy, intensity, and bloodshed of Confederate general John Bell Hood’s ill-fated 1864 campaign against Union forces in Tennessee. In the first-ever anthology on the subject, The Tennessee Campaign of 1864, edited by Steven E. Woodworth and Charles D. Grear, fourteen prominent historians and emerging scholars examine the three-month operation, covering the battles of Allatoona, Spring Hill, and Franklin, as well as the decimation...

There is increasing understanding that climate change will have profound, mostly harmful effects on human health. In this authoritative book, international experts examine long-recognized areas of health concern for populations vulnerable to climate change, describing effects that are both direct, such as heat waves, and indirect, such as via vector-borne diseases. Set in a broad international, economic, political and environmental context, this unique book expands these issues by reviving...

Thank you for your interest in the for beginners series.The for beginners series is a series of books aimed and designed for beginners. As such the books are more like booklets in that they are short but made so that they could be easily digested, easy to understand and easy to apply. The goal is for you to take action. The only way that any book or booklet would help you is if you take action.This one in particular, looks at search engine optimization, looking at how to ge...

Wilfred and Eileen is by Jonathan Smith, author of several novels and non-fiction books. For many years he taught at Tonbridge School and one day the young Anthony Seldon (now the Master of Wellington and the biographer of Tony Blair) told him the story of his grandparents Wilfred and Eileen Willett. Jonathan Smith's first novel a few years later was based on their lives.Wilfred Willett was 22 in 1912 when, at a May Ball at Trinity College, Cambridge, he m...

Thank you for your interest in the for beginners series.The for beginners series is a series of books aimed and designed for beginners. As such the books are more like booklets in that they are short but made so that they could be easily digested, easy to understand and easy to apply. The goal is for you to take action. The only way that any book or booklet would help you is if you take action.This one in particular, looks at achieving blogging and possibly turning a hobby ...

The Order of Electos is a secret organization that trains people to harness their magical abilities. Follow along as fifteen-year-old Jacob Barak joins the Order seeking to purge evil from his world. Jacob will have to face the struggles of training, fighting demons, high school and unseen threats that lurk closer than anyone could imagine. With friends and colleagues at his side, will Jacob be able to survive his freshmen year in high school and his first year in the Order?

The most profitable investment strategy is not the one with the highest returns. It is the one you can actually stick with for thirty years. This distinction is the single most overlooked truth in personal finance, and it is the foundation of the approach that millions of investors have used to build lasting wealth.This book provides a clear, actionable system for building wealth without becoming a full-time investor. You'll learn the exact strategies that the Bogleheads, the r/per...

Every year, millions of people decide to learn programming. Most give up within the first few weeks. They do not quit because programming is too hard or because they are not smart enough. They quit because the resources they use teach syntax without context, vocabulary without conversation.This book exists to solve that problem.Python Jumpstart takes a different approach. It does not try to cover every feature of Python. It focuses on the concepts that matter most to beginn...

You have the title, the office, and the record of achievements that any reasonable person would envy. Yet in the quiet moment before a meeting, a small persistent voice insists that you do not belong, that everyone else is genuine while you slipped through on luck. That voice is imposter syndrome, and the cruel irony is that it grows right alongside your success. The more you achieve, the more vivid the fear becomes that someone will finally expose you.This book is written for the ...

When did you last hear of a poetry book selling in the millions? Well, since 1958 when John Betjeman's Collected Poems was first published, sales have exceeded 2.5 million and are still going strong. When he died in 1984, still as Poet Laureate, he was by far the nation's favourite poet (as Philip Larkin acknowledged). Thanks to his work as a broadcaster and architectural campaigner he was also a celebrity. However his life was full of insecurities, frustrations and busted relationships, a...